People keep saying to me, "why are you not posting, why are you not posting?"

Well, my wife is the webmistress of the website of The Fraternity of St Genesius and she's recently launched a blog and that means she commandeers the computer for hours on end.  Which is fine at the moment with the world cup on - thank God Germany are out - but we may be having conflicts "going forward" - bit like the French and the English.

Speaking of football - check out this goal from Mervue United.

Interesting accidental social experiment on the train this evening.  Someone mentioned a TV drama called "Luther" - "A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts."

Each of us, quite by chance, mentioned who they thought of when Luther was mentioned - somone blurted out "Lex Luther", evil nemesis of Superman.  Another mentioned Luther Vandross. 

Another mentioned Martin ...

There are lots of good articles doing the rounds about the so-called abuse crisis - some simply providing the basic information on who did what and when, others expand a little.  This one by Sean Murphy takes Christopher Hitchens to task.  And we have some of the old reliables - George Weigel and John Allen.

But I want to draw your attention to an excellent article from a secular/humanist/atheist perspective by a guy called Brendan O'Neill.  I was going to summarise it but I think you should r...

The Number One's for the nine months before and after you were born - gives a great flavour of the time. 

Note to self - Idea for dragons den - compile them for people and sell them for birthdays.  There's a great selection of artists during that eighteen months spanning from Jim Reeves (am I really that old?) to the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Monkees, Trogs and Procul Harum.  And in the mix - Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, Petula Clark, Beach Boys.

What's interesting is that almost all the songs fro...

This has got to be one of the nastiest little stories still ongoing.  Pope John Paul the Great's friend of many years, Wanda Poltawska, has written a book about their friendship and included a number of his letters to her.  For doing this she has been attacked viciously by the former secretary, Stanislaw Dziwisz, who seems to be auditioning for the remake of Mean Girls.  Apparently the Pope faked friendship with everyone except Dziwisz.  This of course is the guy who refused to comply with th...

Seen and Unseen now available in Vietnamese.

Many people were shocked and surprised to discover that an unattractive woman over forty with bad hair and big eye-brows could actually sing.  For details see here, here and here.

Haven't had a chance to blog for several days, which is strange as I'm off work and home alone, the rest of the family being off in Donegal.  But I have been busy painting, and sandpapering, sugar-soaping, white-spiriting.  Also had to attend a meeting of the Council of the Fraternity of St Genesius tonight, which went on for a considerable length, and grabbed a quick cuppa before my weekly hour at the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.  I read a snippet from one of St Ignatius of Loyola's letters - h...